{"id":34705,"date":"2019-01-07T19:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34705"},"modified":"2019-01-07T19:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:05:30","slug":"bale-sticks-a-former-vpotus-in-the-eye-needlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34705","title":{"rendered":"Bale sticks a former VPOTUS in the eye . . . needlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTY_christian_bale_batman_nt_130823_4x3_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34706\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTY_christian_bale_batman_nt_130823_4x3_992-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTY_christian_bale_batman_nt_130823_4x3_992-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTY_christian_bale_batman_nt_130823_4x3_992-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GTY_christian_bale_batman_nt_130823_4x3_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christian Bale more or less demonstrated the kind of behavior I wish wouldn&#8217;t occur at these awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>The actor &#8212; who I recognize is a brilliant artist &#8212; decided to stick it in the eye of former Vice President Dick Cheney while accepting his Golden Globe award Sunday night for best actor in a dramatic film. Bale portrays Cheney in the film &#8220;Vice,&#8221; and I must say he turns in a stellar performance.<\/p>\n<p>Bale thanked director Adam McKay for casting him to portray the former VP. But . . . then he described Cheney as &#8220;absolutely charisma free and reviled by everybody.&#8221; <em>Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bale wasn&#8217;t finished. He said in the future he would be &#8220;cornering the market&#8221; on portraying &#8220;charisma-free assholes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration,&#8221; Bale added.<\/p>\n<p>Again, <em>sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have already stated my wish that actors and others in the entertainment industry would refrain from making political statements at these events.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to wonder, though, why Bale would decide to launch a gratuitous assault on an individual who &#8212; regardless of how you feel about him &#8212; is a significant, historic American political figure. Why then? In that moment? In that context?<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one more thing: Christian Bale is a Brit. Meaning that he didn&#8217;t have a voice in determining whether Dick Cheney would occupy any of the public offices he held.<\/p>\n<p>Just sayin&#8217;, man.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Bale more or less demonstrated the kind of behavior I wish wouldn&#8217;t occur at these awards ceremonies. The actor &#8212; who I recognize is a brilliant artist &#8212; decided to stick it in the eye of former Vice President Dick Cheney while accepting his Golden Globe award Sunday night for best actor in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bale sticks a former VPOTUS in the eye . . . needlessly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8280,1380,6739],"class_list":["post-34705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-christian-bale","tag-dick-cheney","tag-vpotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34707,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34705\/revisions\/34707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}